The Research Of Zhou Mengjiang In Yongjia School

Zhou Mengjiang (1922-2012), formerly known as Zhou Dachuan, isa famous researchers in Yongjia School, he has made a significantcontribution to the research of Yongjia School and Wenzhou local history.his life experience was full of hurdles. he studied in the simple part ofWenzhou normal school when he was young because of poverty. later hegot the KMT persecution and then wandered; he was assigned to teach inWenzhou ouhai middle schoo(No.4middle school now) after thefounding of new China, but he got groundless charges because of thepolitic situations. After the Cultural Revolution, Mr. Zhou was transferredto "Chinese dictionary" editorial committee of Wenzhou, and finally cameto teach Chinese in the Wenzhou normal college. During his whole life,Zhou Mengjiang had worked as an apprentice, newspaper editor andteacher, he once followed Xie Xuegong and took part in Taiwan "2.28"incident, he engaged in researching the Yongjia School when he retired.He had Written four monographs,"Ye Shi and Yongjia School ","the chronicle of Yeshi＇s life","the critical biography of Ye Shi,"and “thestudy of Ye Shi ".and he collated three writings of dead authors," Mr Chen Fuliang corpus ","the papers about two Zheng","works about ZhouXingji", and he published over80papers, especially in the study ofYeShi,which is the most famous one.This essay aims at the research of Zhou Mengjiang, focusing on theanalysis of his contribution to academic research of Yongjia School.Firstly, make a brief introduction of the cultural transformation andsocial change in Wenzhou during the20th century, Putting ZhouMengjiang’slife experience as much as possible into the specifichistorical context, so as to explore how he choosed to research YongjiaSchool in the end. Secondly, summarize the research experiences of ZhouMengjiang in Yongjia School. The author thinks that Mr Zhou couldmake such a great achievement in the research of Yongjia school justbecause he kept on three academic methods,"giri","textual research" and"articles". Thirdly, it is about Zhou Mengjiang’s academic contribution tothe study of Yongjia School. The author thinks that his academiccontribution to it is mainly manifested in the following aspects: One isanalyzing the interaction in detail between Yongjia School and Guanxue,Luoxue, Taoism school, and dating back the source of Yongjia School toWang Kaizu, who lived in the medium-term of northern Song Dynasty;The second one is demonstrating in detail the social and economic causesof Yongjia School during the southern Song Dynasty in Wenzhou; thethird one is that he is a master in Yeshi’s research. he researched the formation of Yeshi’s thoughts and his interactions between ChenLiang,Lv Zuwang,Zu Xi and Chen Fuliang,from two aspects of transverseand longitude in detail. the fourth one is correcting some mistakes ofpredecessors to Yongjia scholars. Because the Yongjia school in thesouthern Song Dynasty is a flash in the pan in the history of Chineseacademic history, the scholars don’t speak highly of it, so there are manymistakes in the handed down historical materials about it. ZhouMengjiang paid much attention to the textual research of scholars, such ascomplementing and correcting the life experiences and historical eventsabout Chen Fuliang, Xue Shusi, Xu Jizhi, Cao Bin. Finally, the authormakes an objective comment on the contribution of Zhou Mengjiang, andthe author thinks that Zhou Mengjiang, is the blazer and master in thereserch of Yongjia School.